Riverfront Redevelopment: A Booming Trend

Cities across the nation are reconnecting with rivers; riverfront redevelopment is booming for aesthetic, environmental, and economic reasons and also as an "antidote" to sprawl.

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November 13, 2001, 8:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

From California to New England, cities are re-engaging with their rivers...The riverfront redevelopment has been driven by a number of intersecting trends. The final demise of industry along riverfronts has freed up land, the Clean Water Act has helped revive polluted rivers and made them once again attractive to recreation, and a booming economy throughout the '90s fed civic dreams of reinvention."

Thanks to Robert Hopwood

FULL STORY: River towns reconnect with waterfront potential

Tuesday, November 13, 2001 in The Christian Science Monitor

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